Episode 130: Manage Cancer-Related Constipation with ONS Guidelines™

ONS member Deborah Thorpe, PhD, APRN, founder of and nurse supervisor at the Inn Between assisted living facility in Salt Lake City, UT, and member of the Intermountain ONS Chapter, joins Stephanie Jardine, BSN, RN, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, to discuss the ONS Guidelines™ for Opioid-Induced and Non-Opioid–Related Cancer Constipation, which published in November 2020.

Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod 

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Earn 0.5 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at myoutcomes.ons.org by November 20, 2022. The planners and faculty for this episode have no conflicts to disclose, and the episode has no commercial support. ONS is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 

Episode Notes 

Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

• Complete this evaluation for free NCPD. 

• ONS Guidelines™ for Opioid-Induced and Non–Opioid-Related Cancer Constipation 

• Previous Oncology Nursing Podcast episodes on the ONS Guidelines™ 

• ONS Voice article: Crush Constipation With This Old-Time Recipe 

• Get Up, Get Moving 

• Oncology Nursing Forum article: Management of Opioid-Induced and Non–Opioid-Related Constipation in Patients With Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 

• Oncology Nursing Forum article: Systematic Review of Nonpharmacologic Approaches for the Management of Gastrointestinal Symptoms 

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